Ads don't age well....

My brother loaned me his CD's of "The Amazing Spiderman." All the comic books from 1963 through 1989 are on these. The ads alone are worth reading, with their get-rich-quick schemes and personal improvement plans. They're sort of pathetically hilarious—in about 40 years we'll be looking at internet forwards in the same way. Wait, we already do.

Here is an example of the ads from 1963 (actually, it's an inset in a larger ad about a body-building program):

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